Yesterday
and today my team may have been passing around a jar of scum to add
to our oatmeal, so good. You may be thinking we’ve definitely lost
it after so many months of being on the race and eating whatever we
are given; but I’m pretty sure you would eat the scum too. Saturday,
at Hope House, we helped to make 46 jars of strawberry jam; the scum
is what you take off the top before filling the jars.
cooking
the strawberry jam
Part
of the garden at Hope House is filled with strawberries, fruit pectin
has been donated by people who visit and the jars are re-used from
before. The only cost in making the jam is about $60; I think that
is for the sugar, and maybe the lids. This summer the plan is to
make a total of 200 jars of jam to last them throughout the next
year. Making the jam instead of buying it at the store saves them
about $1000 (USD); so yesterday we saved them about $230.
the
46 jars of jam we made
We
had a good time learning how to make jam, talking with Kerry and the
girls, and eating delicious food.
much
love
